Its time for the faculty contract to get settled one way or another so WIU can get moving again. WIU can't keep shooting its self in the foot if it wants to successfully begin the process of healing and recovery! The ill advised comments from faculty who created "concern" with their gradu...

Admissions director Seth Miner is jumping ship after less than two years for a position at New Mexico State. Jason Woods, associate vice president for student services at Western Illinois University, has been named interim director of the WIU Office of Admissions, effective July 1. Also: William Pol...

Members of the University Professionals of Illinois (UPI) Local 4100 will hold a strike authorization vote next week on the Macomb and Quad Cities campuses as contract talks with the administration drag on.

http://tspr.org/post/wiu-workers-could- ... ze-walkout

VP Matt Bierman is leaving, taking a similar position at a much smaller university, Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington/Normal.

https://www.iwu.edu/news/2018/bierman-n ... nance.html

I don't see how you can turn it around that quickly any other way short of making tuition and room and board really cheap. That is actually a really good idea. Students and parents are looking for a good value today. Unfortunately, student loans have masked the true cost increases over the past cou...

Most telling will be if we are worse off compared Spring to Spring in relationship to the decline we saw from Fall 2016 to Fall 2017.

Fall 2017 enrollment was down 8.98% from 2016.
Spring 2018 enrollment looks to be 8,599, which would be a decrease of 9.19%.

The spring semester enrollment numbers are in at Eastern Illinois, and their overall student enrollment is up. Overall spring enrollment went up at EIU from 6,673 students in Spring 2017 to 7,016 in Spring 2018, making for a five percent increase according to tenth day numbers. Unofficially, WIU's ...

UPI is planning a "silent mob" tomorrow in Sherman Hall: Silent mob on Thursday, December 14th @ 12:30 in the 3rd Floor auditorium of Sherman Hall. We will begin gathering at 12:30, but at 12:40 we will form a line and silently parade our way out of the building. We will then gather briefl...

Is anyone besides me worried about Indiana State coming to this game fired up and we show up flat and they get their first win of the season? In 2009 we were favored to beat INSU, but they came out ready to play and ended their 33 game losing streak. WIU made the national news that day, and not in a...

ISU wins the first half 14-0. WIU wins the second half 31-0!! Coach Fisher sure got the team fired up at halftime.